This J B Priestley play impressed the critics when it opened in 1935 but flopped after only a few weeks and has since sunk into near oblivion. 

It was the snap that France’s celebrity glossies had been waiting for - the presidential couple in their smalls on their summer break.

The increasing defection of Sunni figures drives a wedge into an already fractured Baath

President Francois Hollande has had a dig at David Cameron by jokingly thanking Britain for "rolling out the red carpet" for French athletes to win Olympic medals.

Hundreds of people joined a demonstration in Madrid yesterday against the government's plans to make it harder for women to get abortions.

Cross-Channel friendship fosters a centre-left alliance

Labour leader Ed Miliband today said that “the tide is turning” on austerity economics.

The appalling scenes in Syria begin to reflect the barbarism of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia

The struggling French car maker Peugeot Citroën yesterday launched a drastic cost-cutting plan to slash 8,000 jobs in France and close a factory north of Paris, as it faces diving sales in crisis-hit southern Europe.

It's embarrassing enough to be overheard being rude about your neighbour if it's just the guy from down the road when you're mouthing off in the pub. Consider how much worse for David Cameron.

France's new Socialist government announced a raft of tax rises worth €7.2bn (£5.8bn) yesterday, including heavy one-off levies on wealthy households and big corporations, to plug a revenue shortfall this year from feeble economic growth.

Greece got its first elected prime minister for eight months yesterday as the conservative leader Antonis Samaras was sworn in at the head of a coalition government.

Europe looked on with wary relief as Greek conservative leader Antonis Samaras launched coalition talks after winning elections following weeks of uncertainty over whether the country could remain in the eurozone.